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Pumpkin-Throwing Vandals Plague Long Island (WCBS-TV New York) - Police on Long Island are searching for vandals who have thrown pumpkins at several cars, shattering windows and leaving many frustrated and without drivable vehicles. Nassau County residents Robert and Ellen Meade are two of the victims who woke up to find their car sustaining serious damage from one of the gourds. A ten-pound pumpkin was hurled their the rear window of their new Chevrolet

Long Cove, Belfair among Golfweek's honored clubs (Island Packet) - Long Cove Golf Club on Hilton Head Island led the way at No. 8, and Belfair and Colleton River had both of its courses recognized as nine area golf courses were included in the top 100 of Golfweek Magazine's recent list of the Best Residential Golf Courses.

Vandals Mar Holiday On Long Island (WNBC) - Long Islanders find broken windshields on their cars in the day before Thanksgiving.

Archeologists to Excavate the 14000-Y-Old Island of Khark (Payvand Iran News) - A history of more than 5500 years of human settlement on the Persian Gulf Island of Khark which raised from the waters some 14 millennia ago has encouraged archeologists to excavate this southern Iranian Island, looking for more historic evidence. -CHN

India eyes an island in the sun (The Times of India) - Indian companies would develop hotels and resorts and also upgrade the existing airstrip in the island into an airport.

Johnson's Island Confederate Cemetery (NBC 24 Toledo) - During the height of the Civil War, in a frigid prison stockade, Major George McKnight of Louisiana pens a poem... All week long, we've been taking a special look at one of our coastal towns filled with many hidden- and not so hidden treasures.

Tinian mayor still off-island (Saipan Tribune) - Tinian Mayor Jose P. San Nicolas has been off-island for three weeks now and says that he will have “good news” on Monday. “Wait for Monday. I'll have some good news to say,” said San Nicolas when reached yesterday. He said he was in Manila.

Follow Ups (RedNova) - By LIBN Staff They're stuffed! After the first annual Long Island Restaurant Week, patrons are a bit fuller and restaurateurs a bit richer. Through the brainchild of public relations executive Steve Haweeli, 101 Island restaurants offered prix-fixe meals between Nov.

Patt Morrison: No Starlet Left Behind, Not Even Lindsay Lohan (HuffingtonPost) - Actress Lindsay Lohan's publicly released and alarmingly incoherent letter of condolence to director Robert Altman's family -- see below -- should be dismaying to both public education supporters and home schoolers: Believers in the former might be startled to learn that Miss Lohan was reportedly a straight-A student in Long Island's public schools. And for fans of home schooling, Miss Lohan

Holiday entertainment guide (Newsday) - The holidays are a magical time. On Long Island, community and arts groups, municipalities, theaters, museums, concert halls and houses of worship help make it that way.